Ashtanga yoga offers a therapeutic methodology designed to promote
healing on many levels.
It is a curriculum that involves freeing and strengthening the body, breath, and mind, through repetition and gradual augmentation
of specific practices.
Each person moves through a prescribed series of breath synchronized movements in the form of classical asana at an individual
pace.
The practitioner and their practice evolve symbiotically.
The practices progress from the cultivation of physical mobility and
stability in asana to the enhancement of the breath capacity through pranayama. Continued concentration evolves into meditative states establishing
a settled, more open, connected sense of self.
What begins with great effort over time finds ease, like a song well practised will reveal and express the union of musician and
instrument.
Even simple practice can produce moments of internal harmony.
Yoga does not promise a life without hardship, sorrow, or pain.
But it gives us tools to keep the mind steady through success and failure.
Mysore Style ( self practice )
what is it ?
Mysore Style is the traditional method of teaching and learning ashtanga yoga.
Students are guided through self practice with technical oral instructions and hands on support and guidance of a teacher.
Progression through the practice occurs at an individual pace.
Postures are added incrementally according to each practitioners ability and readiness.
This readiness considers the mental and emotional
aspects as well as the physical capacity.
Students new to Ashtanga and to Mysore style practice are welcome and encouraged to come along.
This incremental elaboration and extension of practice offers the safest and most sustainable approach.
It allows the body and the nervous system to integrate this intense and potent methodology.
It offers the potential for genuine Parinamah ( transformation ) and for healing to occur.